After the Brendon Energy AGM the voting by members resulted in the following payments from the Fund:

• Wild Wivey £84
• In the Mix Youth Project £1008
• Wivey Cares £1008
• Practical Action £400

After the Brendon Energy AGM the voting by members resulted in the following payments from the Fund:

• Wiveliscombe Scouts £1,000 to insulate the Scout hut
• Wivey Cares £700 to support continued operation
• Wivey Town Band £200 towards training band sessions
• Brendon Orchards co-operative £200 towards tree planting
• UNICEF Ukraine appeal £200
• DEC Middle East appeal £200

The BE members voted for the following community fund payments form the 10 Parishes Fund at the last AGM in 2023;

2023

• £500 Brendon Orchards
• £400 Wivey Community Centre
• £400 Wivey Cares
• £150 Wivey Pool
• £150 Wiveliscombe Area Partnership
• £200 Lend with Care
• £200 Medicines sans frontieres

£3,000 was distributed through the Brendon Energy 10 parishes Fund to the following recipients. The 2023 fund will be voted on at the beginning of December 2023.

• £195 Wivey welcomes refugees
• £1,200 In The Mix Youth Project
• £500 Wivey repair café
• £270 Wivey Town Hall
• £270 Wivey Pool
• £270 Kingsmead School PTA
• £305 DEC Pakistan flood relief

Its always nice to see the Community Fund money being used. One of the beneficiaries of the last round of grants was Plain Pond Allotments, who were able to buy a new communal shed for the allotment growers. Plain Pond Allotment Committee member Jane Pinn and BE Director Richard Brunning, are pictured below shortly after the shed’s installation.